INA's story is a tangled saga involving nationalism & treason, as well as heroism & deceit. To take each strand individually will be unfair to evaluate its place in history.
Indian sepoys who left their homes and crossed oceans to witness a world being conquered and exploited by the British, sought to understand, interpret, and even profit from it all.
General KM Cariappa's experiment debunked the martial race theory and illustrated that differences in ethnicity, caste, religious, and regional backgrounds were not the determinants of fighting capabilities of soldiers.
Indian Army still has regiments with caste, religion, and community names, and asks for caste certificates during recruiting. It's time to build a truly inclusive military.
The soldier took a bullet to his chest while fighting Mahsud Tribes at Haidar Kach in 1921, but took the rifle of another soldier and launched a counter-attack.
Sometimes, we end up embroidering the truth as we overthink and overanalyse a fastidious lady’s personal wardrobe preferences for significant occasions.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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